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31th session of Council of Arab Interior Ministers kicks off Wednesday in Marrakech

Marrakech - The 31th session of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers kicked off Wednesday in Marrakech. The opening of the Council's meeting was marked by a royal message, which was read by...

Marrakech : Le Roi Mohammed VI dévoile ses idées sur la démocratie et la sécurité

Marrakech : Dans sa lettre adressée il y a quelques heures, au sommet des ministres arabes de l’intérieur, tenu, sur deux jours, à la cité ocre, le Roi du Maroc a fait, exposé, de nombreuses de ces...

Morocco, Spain announce holding of training session on role of women in mediation in Mediterranean

Brdo - Morocco and Spain announced Tuesday in Brdo (30 km north of Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia), the organization soon of a training session on the role of women in mediation in the Mediterranean....

Morocco participates in 58th session of the UN Commission on Women

New York - Morocco participates in the 58th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, held on March 10-21 at the UN headquarters in New York, and which focuses on development, particularly...

Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles flow abroad from Libya: U.N.

United Nations - Shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles have been trafficked out of Libya to Chad, Mali, Tunisia, Lebanon and likely Central African Republic, with attempts made to send them to...

Tunisia prostitutes petition parliament to return to work

Tunis - A group of Tunisian prostitutes demanded Tuesday to be allowed back to work, 18 months after their brothel in the resort town of Sousse was attacked by hardline Salafists and closed down....

Cruise operator suspends Tunisia stops after Israelis barred

The US-based operator of a cruise ship whose Israeli passengers were prevented from entering Tunisia, announced on Tuesday that it would no longer call at Tunisian ports....

US And Morocco Further Strengthen Economic Ties -- But Who Benefits Most?

Rabat, Morocco -- Morocco and the United States have had economic ties since the 1700s, and the relationship is still going strong. The U.S....

Two Moroccan women elected 2014 Young Global Leaders of Davos Forum

Geneva - Mayor of Marrakech Fatima Zahra Mansouri and Moroccan-German reporter Souad Mekhennet were elected 2014 Young Global Leaders (YGLs), an initiative by the world economic forum of Davos....

Interior minister meets with Saudi peer in Marrakech

Marrakech - Interior Minister Mohamed Hassad med, Tuesday in Marrakech, with Saudi counterpart and Honorary President of the council of Arab Interior Ministers, HRH Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Bin...

5th Moroccan-Qatari Joint Committee: several cooperation agreements signed

Rabat - The fifth Moroccan-Qatari Joint Committee was crowned, Tuesday in Rabat, with the signature of several cooperation agreements and Memorandums of understanding on different matters, as well as...

Japan agrees to lend Tunisia $480 million to support transition

Tunis - Japan has agreed to lend Tunisia 750 million dinars to support the transition to democracy in the North African country where the Arab Spring began, Deputy Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki said...

Gabon sets up committee to follow up agreements with Morocco

Libreville - Gabon decided to set up a committee to follow up implementation of the agreements signed with Morocco during the two countries' economic forum held on the sidelines of the work and...

Moroccan foreign delegate-minister welcomes Slovenia's support to UN efforts to reach mutually acceptable settlement to Sahara issue

Lubiana (Slovenia) - Moroccan delegate-minister for foreign affairs and cooperation M'Barka Bouaida welcomed Slovenia's support to the UN efforts to reach a mutually acceptable settlement to the...

Egypt, Tunisia FMs in first meeting since Morsi ouster

Cairo – Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi met Monday with his Tunisian counterpart Mongi Hamdi in Cairo for the first time since the July 3 ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi....

Bahrain's GFH to start $3 bln Tunisia project

TUNIS (Reuters) - Bahrain's Gulf Finance House (GFH) will start building a $3 billion financial park and real estate development north of Tunisia's capital, a project that had been suspended for five...

Morocco's Onicl buys 260,000 T soft wheat in the local market

Rabat - Moroccan state grains agency ONICL said on Monday it had bought 260,000 tonnes of soft wheat at 2,582 to 2,800 dirhams ($320-$340) per tonne in the local market. It was Morocco's second...

Israeli tourists prevented from entering Tunisia

Tunis - Israeli tourists aboard a cruise ship were prevented from entering Tunisia due to a surprise decision by the Tunisian government, the cruise operator said on Monday....

Cash-strapped Morocco courts US investment

Rabat - Morocco's finance minister on Monday urged US businesses to boost investment in the country and take advantage of "unprecedented" regional growth, as the cash-strapped government battles to...

Gulf investors to pump funds into Morocco's private sector

Units of the Islamic Development Bank, a multilateral lender, and sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) have signed an agreement to invest jointly in Morocco's private sector....